Soil Type: Sandy/Light or Chalky/AlkalineSoil Moisture: Dry, well drained or Moist, but well drained

Cheerful yellow daisy-like flowers on long branched stems above fleshy grey-green leaves. Corn marigolds were once a familiar sight - adorning cornfields, railway embankments and roadsides. Perfect for naturalising in a sunny wildflower garden, profits from these seeds are used to protect existing wildflower areas and develop potential new sites.

Garden care: When sowing seeds do not use a fertiliser since wildflowers prefer poor soils. Deadhead regularly to prolong flowering. In autumn cut the faded flower-heads down to the ground and compost the dead stems